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Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor

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Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor (1998)
Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor

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Endemic
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New Zealand
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Edgar & Connor
Edgar & Connor
1998
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Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor
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Zotovia acicularis

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acicularis

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Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor

Small tufts 3-13 cm from long fine rhizomes, of many dense fine leaves with needle-like tips subtending short racemose inflorescences at first partly concealed among leaves, later borne well above on elongate stems; branching intravaginal. Leaf-sheath to 8 mm, keeled, glabrous, wider than blade, lobed apically. Auricles 0. Ligule c. 0.5 mm, tapered and longer at centre, noticeably ciliate. Leaf-blade 1-2.6 cm × 0.5 mm diam., tightly inrolled, light green with cream cross-veinlets, glabrous, pinched into curved, pale tip; margins with minute prickle-teeth. Culm very slender, minutely pubescent below inflorescence. Raceme c. 1 cm, of 3-6 spikelets; pedicels with dense, minute prickle-teeth. Spikelets 5-7.5 mm, laterally compressed. Glumes ± equal, 2-3.5 mm, c. ½ length of spikelet, lanceolate, subacute, keeled above, glabrous, margins with minute prickle-teeth; lower 1-nerved, upper 3-nerved. Ø lemmas unequal, lanceolate, long-narrowed above, keel and margins minutely prickle-toothed; lower Ø lemma 5-5.5 mm, 5-nerved, callus hairs 1-1.5 mm; upper Ø lemma 6-6.8 mm, 3-nerved, callus hairs 1.5-2 mm. ☿ lemma 3-4 mm, narrow elliptic, glabrous, tip truncate, erose to almost lacerate, ciliate. Palea 2.5-2.75 mm, apex ciliate. Lodicules c. 0.75 mm, flabellate, erose. Anthers 1.1-1.5 mm. Gynoecium: ovary c. 0.6 mm; stigma-styles c. 1 mm, stigmas plumose. Caryopsis not seen.

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Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor
Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor
Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor
Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor
Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor
Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor
Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor
Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor
Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor
Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor
Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor
Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor
Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor
Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor
Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor

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Zotovia acicularis Edgar & Connor
New Zealand
Southland Land District

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38115b5f-3bd0-417a-88c6-eca904a5cc9d
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1 January 2000
26 May 2025
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